Presence of corticotropin-releasing factor-stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in rat retina.

abstract：:3 alpha-Hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase (EC 1.1.1.50) was localized in the rat brain by cryostat sectioning, microassay, and neurochemical lesions. Single 16-microns sections were cut, homogenized, and assayed. In the olfactory tubercle 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase activity is high in the piaglial layer at the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Krieger NR,Scott RG

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agmatine (decarboxylated arginine) was originally identified in the CNS as an imidazoline receptor ligand. Further studies demonstrated that agmatine antagonizes NMDA receptors and inhibits nitric oxide synthase. Intrathecally administered agmatine inhibits opioid tolerance and hyperalgesia evoked by inflammation, ner...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Goracke-Postle CJ,Overland AC,Riedl MS,Stone LS,Fairbanks CA

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a chemical-induced model of dentate granule (DG) cell death, cDNA microarray analysis was used to identify gene profiles from the laser-captured microdissected (LCM) hippocampal DG cell region versus the CA pyramidal cell layer (CA) from 21-day-old male CD1 mice injected with trimethyltin hydroxide (TMT; 3.0 mg/...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lefebvre d'Hellencourt C,Harry GJ

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) has both soluble (S-COMT) and membrane-bound (MB-COMT) isoforms. A specific COMT antibody was used in immunohistochemical and confocal co-localization studies to explore the distribution of COMT in general in normal mice and MB-COMT in particular, in an S-COMT deficient mouse line. ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Myöhänen TT,Schendzielorz N,Männistö PT

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increasing knowledge of Alzheimer's disease (AD) management with novel pharmacologic agents, most of them are only transiently fixing symptomatic pathology. Currently there is rapid growth in the field of neuroprotective pharmacology and increasing focus on the involvement of mitochondria in this devastati...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Galindo MF,Ikuta I,Zhu X,Casadesus G,Jordán J

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although accumulating evidence demonstrates that white matter degeneration contributes to pathology in Alzheimer's disease (AD), the underlying mechanisms are unknown. In order to study the roles of the amyloid-beta peptide in inducing oxidative stress damage in white matter of AD, we investigated the effects of amylo...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Zeng C,Lee JT,Chen H,Chen S,Hsu CY,Xu J

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The determinants of charge selectivity of the Cys-loop family of ligand-gated ion channels have been studied for more than a decade. The investigations have mainly covered homomeric receptors e.g. the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor alpha7, the glycine receptor alpha1 and the serotonin receptor 5-HT(3A). Only recentl...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Jensen ML,Schousboe A,Ahring PK

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of short- and long-chain fatty acids on the cerebromicrovascular (Na+ + K+)-ATPase were investigated using specific [3H]ouabain binding to the enzyme. Specific binding increased linearly with total microvessel protein (37-110 micrograms) and was time-dependent with maximum binding obtained by 10 min. Arach...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Caspers ML,Grammas P

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fenobam [N-(3-chlorophenyl)-N'-(4,5-dihydro-1-methyl-4-oxo-1H-imidazole-2-yl)urea], a clinically validated non-benzodiazepine anxiolytic, has been shown to be a potent and non-competitive metabotropic glutamate (mGlu)-5 receptor antagonist. In the present study, we have used the site-directed mutagenesis coupled with ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Malherbe P,Kratochwil N,Mühlemann A,Zenner MT,Fischer C,Stahl M,Gerber PR,Jaeschke G,Porter RH

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At the time of terminal differentiation, mammalian cortical neurons undergo a dramatic change in the structural organization of their chromatin: the nucleosomal repeat length shortens from approximately 200 base pairs in fetuses to a value of 165 base pairs after birth. These events occur several days after the end of...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cestelli A,Di Liegro I,Castiglia D,Gristina R,Ferraro D,Salemi G,Savettieri G

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent evidence suggests that neuronal apoptosis is the consequence of an inappropriate reentry into the cell cycle. Expression of the cell cycle gene cyclin D1, a G1-phase cell cycle regulator, was examined in primary cultures of murine cerebellar granule cells (CGCs) during kainate (KA)-mediated apoptosis. Using cul...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Giardina SF,Cheung NS,Reid MT,Beart PM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a novel mouse gene named pancortin that is expressed dominantly in the mature cerebral cortex. This gene produces four different species of proteins, Pancortin-1-4, sharing a common region in the middle of their structure with two variations at the N-terminal (A1 or A2 part) and C-terminal (C1 or C2...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Nagano T,Nakamura A,Konno D,Kurata M,Yagi H,Sato M

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glutamate receptor 2 (GluR2) subunit determines many of the functional properties of the alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionate subtype of glutamate receptor. The roles of untranslated regions (UTRs) in mRNA stability, transport, or translation are increasingly recognized. The 3' end of the GluR2 tra...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Irier HA,Shaw R,Lau A,Feng Y,Dingledine R

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The X11-like (X11L) protein was originally isolated as a protein bound to the cytoplasmic domain of the beta-amyloid precursor protein (APP), which is associated with Alzheimer's disease. In mammals, X11L is believed to play an important role in the regulation of APP metabolism. Here we isolated and characterized the ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Hase M,Yagi Y,Taru H,Tomita S,Sumioka A,Hori K,Miyamoto K,Sasamura T,Nakamura M,Matsuno K,Suzuki T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that systemically injected extracellular domain of neuregulin-1β1 (Nrg1β1), a nerve growth and differentiation factor, passes the blood-brain barrier and rescues dopaminergic neurons of substantia nigra in the 6-hydroxydopamine-mouse model of Parkinson's disease (PD). Here, we studied the e...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Depboylu C,Rösler TW,de Andrade A,Oertel WH,Höglinger GU

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanomolar β-amyloid peptide (Aβ) can induce neuronal loss in culture by activating microglia to phagocytose neurons. We report here that this neuronal loss is mediated by the bridging protein lactadherin/milk-fat globule epidermal growth factor-like factor 8 (MFG-E8), which is released by Aβ-activated microglia, binds...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Neniskyte U,Brown GC

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence data from key fragments of the P2 protein established the order of cyanogen bromide (CNBr) peptides in the structure of the protein and the primary structure for approximately one-half of the molecule. Data were obtained from the three tryptic peptides of blocked NH2-terminal CNBr peptide (CN3), the large CNB...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Weise MJ,Hsieh DL,Levit S,Brostoff SW

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Excitotoxicity mediated by alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid (AMPA) receptors has been proposed to play a major role in the selective death of motor neurons in sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and motor neurons are more vulnerable to AMPA receptor-mediated excitotoxicity than are o...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Sun H,Kawahara Y,Ito K,Kanazawa I,Kwak S

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulator of G protein signaling (RGS) proteins are GTPase-activating proteins that modulate neurotransmitter and G protein signaling. RGS7 and its binding partners Galpha and Gbeta5 are enriched in brain, but biochemical mechanisms governing RGS7/Galpha/Gbeta5 interactions and membrane association are poorly defined....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Rose JJ,Taylor JB,Shi J,Cockett MI,Jones PG,Hepler JR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) and Schwann cell myelin protein (SMP) are highly glycosylated members of a newly defined family of cell adhesion molecules belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily that recognize terminal sialic acid residues on N- and O-linked oligosaccharides. The importance of the N-linked ol...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tropak MB,Roder JC

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Incretin-related therapy was found to be beneficial for experimental diabetic neuropathy, but its mechanism is obscure. The purpose of this study is to explore the mechanism through which dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibitor, vildagliptin (VG), influences neuropathy in diabetic rodents. To this end, non-obese type 2 diab...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tsuboi K,Mizukami H,Inaba W,Baba M,Yagihashi S

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cDNA clone encoding a novel G protein-linked receptor was isolated from a rat cerebral cortex cDNA library using a polymerase chain reaction-amplified cDNA fragment as a probe. This 2.4-kb clone encodes a 367 amino acid protein with seven putative transmembrane spanning domains. The protein is highly homologous to t...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Lachowicz JE,Shen Y,Monsma FJ Jr,Sibley DR

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fascin-1 is a putative bundling factor of actin filaments in the filopodia of neuronal growth cones. Here, we examined the structure of the actin bundle formed by human fascin-1 (actin/fascin bundle), and its mode of interaction with myosin in vitro. The distance between cross-linked filaments in the actin/bundle was ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Ishikawa R,Sakamoto T,Ando T,Higashi-Fujime S,Kohama K

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five-day-old rats subjected to prolonged asphyxia at 37 degrees C show a slower rate of synthesis of 5-HT as measured by the accumulation of the amine after inhibition of monoamine oxidase. During recovery from asphyxia 5-HT synthesis is markedly stimulated when measured over a 50 or 90 min period. No change in 5-HT s...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Tricklebank MD,Pickard FJ,Dobbing J

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endocannabinoid anandamide (N-arachidonoylethanolamine) and other bioactive long-chain N-acylethanolamines are thought to be formed from their corresponding N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines by a specific phospholipase D (NAPE-PLD) in the brain as well as other tissues. However, regional distribution of NAPE-PLD in ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Morishita J,Okamoto Y,Tsuboi K,Ueno M,Sakamoto H,Maekawa N,Ueda N

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that activation of the cyclic AMP (cAMP) pathway down-regulates CREB expression in CATH.a cells, an effect that appears to be mediated via inhibition of CREB gene transcription. In the current study, we compared this effect in CATH.a cells with regulation of CREB expression in another cell ...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Coven E,Ni Y,Widnell KL,Chen J,Walker WH,Habener JF,Nestler EJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recycling of synaptic vesicles in nerve terminals involves multiple steps, underlies all aspects of synaptic transmission, and is a key to understanding the basis of synaptic plasticity. The development of styryl dyes as fluorescent molecules that label recycling synaptic vesicles has revolutionized the way in whi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Cousin MA,Robinson PJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:C-type natriuretic peptide and sodium nitroprusside, a nitric oxide donor molecule, induced large increases in cyclic GMP formation in cultured rat brain capillary endothelial cells. Isoproterenol, a potent agonist of adenylate cyclase, potentiated the actions of C-type natriuretic peptide and of sodium nitroprusside....

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Vigne P,Lund L,Frelin C

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microglia are known to be a primary inflammatory cell type in the brain. However, microglial inflammatory responses are attenuated in the injured brain compared to those in cultured pure microglia. In the present study, we found that astrocytes challenged by oxygen-glucose deprivation (OGD) or H(2) O(2) released solub...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Kim JH,Min KJ,Seol W,Jou I,Joe EH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Procedures are described for the solubilization of adenosine uptake sites in guinea pig and rat brain tissue. Using [3H]nitrobenzylthioinosine [( 3H]NBI) the solubilized site is characterized both kinetically and pharmacologically. The binding is dependent on protein concentration and is saturable, reversible, specifi...

journal_title：Journal of neurochemistry

authors： Verma A,Houston M,Marangos PJ

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00